Gage for wire fences



(No Model.)

D. W. AYLWORTH.

GAGE FOR WIRE FENCES.

No. 591,803. Patented Oct. 19,1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

DANIEL W. AYLWORTH, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

GAGE FOR WIRE FENCES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 591,803, dated October19, 1897.

Application filed November 30, 1896. Renewed September '7, 1897. SerialNo. 650,844. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be i tknown that I, DANIEL W. AYLWORTH, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Cleveland, county of Cuyahoga, State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Gages for Wire Fences,of which I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in gages for accurately placing thevertical wires or pickets in building wire fences; and the objects ofthe invention are to provide a simple device which will insure thecorrect spacing and vertical adjustment of the pickets upon thehorizontal wires.

My invention consists in the vertical supporting-rods andslidinghorizontal gage-rods, with the details of construction andarrangement of parts as hereinafter described, shown in the accompanyingdrawings, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation in perspective ofthe device adapted to a frame upon the lever. Fig. 2 is a view of thesame adapted to use on a hill side. Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6 are details.

In the drawings, 1 1 are the horizontal wires.

2 2 are the vertical pickets.

3 is a bar of light wood which supports the gage-rods 4, and is hungdirectly upon the horizontal wires at 6, where grooves are outhorizontally for that purpose.

The gage-rods are passed through large grooves 7 in the vertical bar 3,and are supported at one of the extremities by means of hooks 8, passedover the nearest horizontal wires.

9 are vertical grooves cut in the gage-rods for the insertion of thepickets, and are therefore placed at regular distances to insureregularityin spacing the pickets. The pickets are placed in the groovesat the proper height and secured to the horizontal wires by clamps 10.

In building the fence the pickets are inserted in the gage-rods at oneside of the bar 3, and the bar is slid along the gages and horizontalwires until the gages are filled, when they are detached and replacedupon the horizontal wires beyond the finished fence.

The pickets are held in the grooves in the gage-rods by means of buttons11,and similar buttons are employed to inclose the horizontal wires inthe vertical bar 3. The larger made in the vertical bar 3 and in thegages must be enlarged at either end in dovetail fashion at 14 to givethe wires free movement to suit their angle of inclination. The grooves7 for the passage of the gage-rods are also dovetailed in shape for thesame purpose.

The advantages of this device are obvious in its simplicity and easyoperation in the field, while by means of the dovetailed grooves andlevel the pickets cau'be placed in an accurately vertical position,which heretofore has been difficult to accomplish upon slanting ground.7

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. In a gage for wire-fence pickets, the combination with a vertical barprovided with grooves through which pass the horizontal Wires, and uponwhich said bar is movably supported, of horizontal gage-rods passingthrough grooves in said vertical bar and provided with vertical groovesspacedto the distance between pickets, hooks adapted to support theouter ends of the gages upon the horizontal Wires, and a level upon thevertical bar, substantially as described.

2. In a gage for wire-fence pickets, thecombination with a vertical bar,supported upon and longitudinally movable upon the horizontal Wires bymeans of grooves, of gagerods, movably secured to said vertical bar ingrooves and provided with grooves spaced to receive the vertical wires,covers for the grooves in the vertical bar hooks adapted to support theouter ends of the gage-rods upon the longitudinal wires, and a levelupon the vertical bar, substantially as described.

3. In a gage for wire-fence pickets, the combination With a verticalbar, supported upon the longitudinal wires by means of grooves, ofgage-rods passing through groovesin said bar and provided with verticalgrooves adapted to receive the vertical wires, all of said grooves beingdovetailed in shape to per- 1o mit of varying the angle of the verticalbar and pickets relatively to the gage-rods and longitudinal wires,hooks upon the outer extremities of the gage-rods, and a levelupon thevertical bar, whereby the parallelism of the vertical pickets may bemaintained, sub- 15

